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1. High Auction record : £13.5m(2천2백10억원), Sotheby's, 2011

2. Collected by a Major Museum : Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Centre Pompidou, Tate, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Reina Sofia, Art Institute of Chicago, Moderna Museet, Stockholm etc.

Salvador Dalí Multiple Sculptures Collection - Alice in Wonderland

In 1968 Dalí was commissioned to illustrate an edition of the Alice in Wonderland book. Dalí chose to represent Alice as a girl with a skipping rope, an image which first appeared in his oeuvre in the 1930’s and was used in numerous oil paintings such as Morphological Echo (c.1935)

Like Alice in Wonderland , Dalí travelled a long and arduous road through the land of dreams by means of his artistic expression. He was drawn to both the incredible story line and the extravagant characters in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 tale. Alice was one of Dalí’s favorite characters. In the story, Alice falls asleep and dreams of falling down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of magic ‘drink me’ potions, eccentric creatures, and absurd realities. For Dalí, she is the eternal girl child who responds to the confusion of this nonsense world with the naivety and innocence of childhood.

Here, Dalí portrays Alice’s innocence and naivety. Dalí created Alice’s silhouette holding a skipping rope frozen in motion above her head, her hands and hair blossoming into roses, symbolizing feminine beauty and eternal youth. The crutch symbolizes stability, it gives her emotional support, acting as a link back to reality.

Date : conceived in 1977, first cast in 1984

Material : bronze

Technique : lost wax process

Edition size : 350 + 35 EA 

Height : 90.5cm

Edition : patina blue

Maquette : original gouache, Alice in Wonderland 

Direct intervention (created by Dalí): the idea, image, and original maquette

Indirect intervention (created by artisans): lost wax process and patina